Another then and now..

Queen Elizabeth II surfaces during her first public engagement for more than a week following illness. Members of the Royal family visited Baker Street Underground Station to mark the 150th anniversary of the London Underground Photograph: Tim Rooke/Rex Features And here she is in March 1969 travelling on the tube after the official opening ceremony of London Underground’s Victoria Line, 7th March 1969. Photograph: Fox Photos/Getty Images

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Latest of the lip-syncs comes from… TEAM GB! Ennis and Hoy join the Adidas marketing coup as a host of Great Britain’s Olympic champions’ take on Queen’s Don’t Stop Me Now to celebrate the success of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Louis Smith is amazing in this…

Nice way to round it all off (and get it out of their system before the closing ceremony!)

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Photographs: Otto Herschan/Hulton Royals Collection/Getty Images and Oli Scarff/Getty Images

Queen Victoria’s private beach, Osborne Bay on the Isle of Wight, is to go on public view for the first time - see more images on the Guardian

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Photography by David Levene

Queen’s diamond jubilee procession in two minutes – timelapse video

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The Prince of Wales shares his thoughts on his ‘Mama’s’ achievements in her role as monarch over the last six decades in a personal tribute to the Queen

Wishing Her Majesty a happy diamond jubilee in our own way, with:

• Travel tips for the diamond jubilee weekend: what’s on where – plus how to avoid it;
• A TV guide for both Royalists and Republicans;
• How to draw the Queen (and her knickers) for kids;
• The best of the worst jubilee souvenirs;
• 60 years of the Queen’s fashions.

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A pictorial timeline of Elizabeth II’s reign ahead of her diamond jubilee:

2 June 1953: Queen Elizabeth II following her coronation. The date of the Queen’s coronation was chosen so as not to clash with the Derby or fall on an unlucky day. The crowning of the monarch proved to be a milestone in modern British history and with an estimated TV viewing audience of 20 million, it ushered in the age of the major televised event